Massot, Marie-Laure

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Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus
a	report
Marie-Laure	Massot
Academic	engineer	
CAPHÉS,	UMS	3610	– CNRS/ENS	Paris
OUTLINE
qThe	ANR	project	Foucault’s	Reading	Notes	(Foucault	fiches	de	lecture	- Ffl project)
q How	to	explore	the	corpus	with	digital	tools	
q Automatic	transcription	of	Foucault’s	manuscripts	with	Transkribus:
1. Creating	 learning	 data	for	Foucault’s	handwriting
2. Main	difficulties	 encountered
3. Assessment	of	the	experiment and	prospects
Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus
a	report
Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a report
The	ANR	project	Foucault’s	Reading	Notes	(Ffl project)
11/6/18 Michel	Foucault's	 archives	kept	at	the	BnF. 3
Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a report
How	to	explore	the	corpus	with	digital	tools	
11/6/18 The	Ffl platform provides	 heterogeneous	 annotations	 categories	 and	description	 fields. 4
Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a	report
How	to	explore	the	corpus	with	digital	tools	
11/6/18 A	network	 cartography	 of	reading	 notes	in	box	n°38	 (V.	Ventresque). 5
Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a report
Automatic	transcription	of	Foucault’s	manuscripts	with	Transkribus
11/6/18 Manual	transcriptions	 to	train	Transkribus to	decipher	 Foucault’s	 handwriting.
1. Creating	 learning	 data	for	
Foucault’s	handwriting
2. Main	difficulties	 encountered
3. Assessment	of	the	experiment	
and	prospects
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Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a	report
11/6/18 Document	 segmentation	 (text	regions,	 lines	 and	base-lines)and	line	by	line	 transcription	 of	the	manuscript
Creating	learning	data	for	Foucault’s	handwriting	
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• Foucault’s	handwriting:	reading	notes	
with	a	lot	or	ambiguous	
abbreviations,	several	letters	written	
in	the	same	way,	erasure,	misspelled,	
pasted	words,	etc.
• Illegible	words	were	identified	with	
TEI	encoding
• Getting	to	grips	with	the	software	and	
average	time	per	card
• Software	Ergonomics
• Multi-handed	transcripts
11/6/18 Deciphering	 Foucault’s	 handwriting	 is	very	challenging!
Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a report
Main	difficulties	encountered
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Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a report
11/6/18 Automatic	 transcription	 of	Michel	Foucault's	 reading	 notes		by	the	HTR	engine	after	training.
Automatic	transcription
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• Training	of	600	images	transcribed	
manually
• Average	success	rate	of	92%	on	the	
characters
• Future	corrected	transcripts	can	be	fed	
back	into	Transkribus to	complete	the	
training	and	increase	the	accuracy	rate
• Results	of	the	Transkribus software	tests	
very	encouraging
• Producing	automatic	transcripts	for	all	
images	
• Using	the	Omeka platform	to	set	up	a	
collaborative	correction	system
• Despite	their	imperfection	Automatic	
transcription	usable	to	perform	« full	
text »	search	in	images	or	texts	
• « Fuzzy »	search		:	search	for	keywords	
(similarity	between	words	and	terms	the	
user	wants	to	retrieve
11/6/18
Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a report
Assessment	of	the	experiment	and	prospects
A	textual	database	that	can	be	verified,	documented,	enriched	and	explored.
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200	images 600	images
Average	success	rate	of	the	tests
correct	 error
Transcriptions
Manual	 Automatic
11/6/18
Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus:	a report
Results	of	the	Transkribus software	tests
Very	encouraging!	The	HTR	model	can	be	improved!
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Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus
a report
Marie-Laure	Massot,	Arianna	Sforzini,	Vincent	Ventresque.	Transcrire les	fiches	de	lecture	de	Michel	
Foucault	avec	le	logiciel Transkribus :	compte rendu des	tests.	June	2018:	available	on	HAL
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01794139v2
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Transcribing	Foucault’s	handwriting	with	Transkribus.	November	2018.
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Transcribing Foucault's handwriting with Transkribus: a report

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